[ale] ALE CENTRAL MTG. for Thurs., January 17th, 2008

[aaron]

To accommodate room scheduling at our provided venue we
have moved our ALE Central meetings to the THIRD Thursday
of each month starting in 2008.

Our January 17th, 7:30pm meeting presentation will be
  "Meshing Around with the OLPC XO Micro"
with presenters
   Charles Shapiro & Mike Harrison.
 
Synopsis:
   "Meshing Around" will be a casual exploration of the anxiously
awaited XO micro laptop created by the One Laptop Per Child
project.  At least 2 (and perhaps as many as 5) of the recently
released devices will be on hand for a variety of feature demos,
design discussions and hacking hints focusing around this
most unique and high minded Linux project.

Bios:
   Charles Shapiro is a fan of fencing, juggling, gadgetry, RC toys
and most anything the lesser world considers "geek" or "gear head".
Consistent to this calling he has been a professional programmer for
over 10 years, specializing in C and unix with a couple years of C++,
Perl and a plethora of Python in the mix. He can type faster than
most people can talk, is a Linux Lunacy Cruise alumnae, a liberty
minded friend of the EFF and a committed Linux zealot since 1996.

    Mike Harrison originally trained as a USAF BioMedical Electronics 
Technician and spent several civilian years as a Consulting Clinical 
Engineer.  Later he left the hospital/corporate world and founded
Higher Technology Services (HTS) in 1989, Chattanooga Online in
1993 and GeekLabs in 1998. Mike sold his interest in HTS and COL
in 2003, making himself sole owner of GeekLabs. Mike's interest in
the OLPC is focused toward 2 separate coding projects -- an online
educational system and a utility payment/control system that may
both be available to OLPC users in the near future.

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We will be meeting in our usual Gambrel Hall room 1C venue.
Directions to the Emory Law School building can be found at:
   http://www.ale.org/new/directions-to-ale-central/